Parliamentary Service Amendment Act 2015

 

No. 26, 2015

 

 

 

 

 

An Act to amend the Parliamentary Service Act 1999, and for related purposes

 

 

Contents

1 Short title

2 Commencement

3 Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

Parliamentary Service Act 1999

 

 

 

Parliamentary Service Amendment Act 2015

No. 26, 2015

 

 

 

An Act to amend the Parliamentary Service Act 1999, and for related purposes

[Assented to 1 April 2015]

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

1  Short title

  This Act may be cited as the Parliamentary Service Amendment Act 2015.

2  Commencement

  This Act commences on the day after this Act receives the Royal Assent.

3  Schedules

  Legislation that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1Amendments

 

Parliamentary Service Act 1999

1  At the end of subsection 65A(2)

Add:

 ; and (d) either:

 (i) the Commissioner of the Australian Federal Police; or

 (ii) a Deputy Commissioner of the Australian Federal Police or a senior executive AFP employee (within the meaning of the Australian Federal Police Act 1979) who is nominated by the Presiding Officers in writing.

2 Subsection 65A(5)

After “management”, insert “or operation”.

 

 

 

[Minister’s second reading speech made in—

House of Representatives on 26 November 2014

Senate on 27 November 2014]

 

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